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First I love that it's a legal pitch. She never breaks contact with the rubber (or wouldn't have if she was standing on it). I can't imagine how the body can twist like that. The other thing I liked is that there was a batter who took a token swing. Is that standard for the first pitch in Korea or elsewhere?

Went to Yahoo.com just now and the very first "news story" pictured in the large window pane was "Google Interns drawing complaints from Neighbors". Really? That is what Yahoo considers an interesting news story? Somehow I doubt this would have been a news story of Yahoo's if it was Yahoo interns drawing complaints. Yahoo's crappy commentary is cause largely by what they themselves consider newsworthy content.

When I watched the very first time I didn't catch that she at least pivoted on her foot - it was making my hip hurt just seeing the video.

The other thing I liked is that there was a batter who took a token swing. Is that standard for the first pitch in Korea or elsewhere?

I'm pretty sure I've seen this before in Japanese games. Of course in the U.S. they used to throw the first pitch from the box seats instead of from the mound. Anyone remember when that started changing?

In every Japanese game I've seen live or on TV (about 100) the leadoff hitter comes up to bat to take a perfunctory swing. And he always swings.

One thing I noticed in Japan is that there is a very high percentage of people throwing out the first pitch who can throw pretty well, regardless of gender. I am inclined to believe that in Japan at least, there are many more athletic activities for girls that involve throwing and it is hard to grow up "throwing like a girl" (to borrow a U.S. phrasing.)

Looks like a good throw to me. Not a great one. Virtually every pitcher in the Korean league could have made it. And would have, had they failed to succeed at professional baseball and thus only been out there for the ceremonial first pitch.

Her cartwheel has distracted people from the pretty low velocity of the pitch. The batter intentionally swung and missed at an otherwise weak pitch, which I guess is why people were fooled into thinking this was a special throw. I see nothing remarkable about it.

I'd love a translation of the announcers. They seemed kind of bored until the pitch.

Actually, one of the announcers could be heard letting out a gasp the moment she stuck out her tuchus.

That's what I was referring to. It's like they're having the usual pre-game boring discussion of some minor scandal in the Yankee-equivalent Korean team, or a juicing scandal or something and then, wham, look at that girl's ass!

#19 Back when they had a pitcher's box Hoss Radbourne used to start at one corner of the box -- not even facing the batter. Then he'd spin -- kind of like a shot putter does and work his way diagonally across the box and release the ball at a seemingly random point.

I got the joke, I just didn't think it was funny. I'm a strict believer that anything is okay as long as it's funny, but since that wasn't, it wasn't. If it weren't so omnipresent than I wouldn't have even noticed.